Go read Plato's Dialogues, Aristotle's Poetics, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, some Kierkegaard, some Camus, some Nietzsche, Kafka's Metamorphosis, Machen's Great God Pan. I could go on, but I'll not inconvenience the pixels.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do - Robert A Heinlein

Oh by the way,
My brother has the first three Halo books, there good.
I even have some friends who have Halo books too.

I should recommend some books to.

"Black" is great, it's the first book of a trilogy.
The books in the trilogy are, Black, Red, and White. Great books.
(Well, I did not finish Red yet... and had not started White... )
(I need to barrow those books again.)
These have a lot of action, and are just awesome books!

A pretty good book is "Sir Gibbie." (Some of it was boring though.)
This is a pretty slow going book too. Still a great read.

Another good book is "The Shepherd Castle" which is after "Sir Gibbie."
This has a little bit of mystery, A dark secrets, and is a great book.

For the most part...yeah. To be honest though, as much as I love reading something like Camus, there's a ridiculous soft spot in me for well-written YA fiction.

A friend of mine forced me to read one of the Halo books several years ago (I was 12) and I loved it. So, I cautiously recommend Eric Nylund's authorship, if you're into that kind of thing.

As I will with any thread that crops up like this, I can't recommend Markus Zusak enough, especially The Book Thief. I heartily enjoyed I Am the Messenger, but it seems the former is the clear favorite.

LOL, You really want my recommendeds list?? Considering I'm a voracious reader and used to be a bookseller that supported my habit, I'm not sure it's entirely possible. I'll do my best, but it will have to come in chunks as I recall them.

My Top Favorites (not necessarily in order):

1) MYST book series-Myst:The Book of Atrus, Myst:The Book of D'ni, Myst: The Book of Ti'Ana by Robyn Miller;
an awesome supplement to the game series. After you'll read these, you'll want to play the games again so you can really understand them this time around. These are the most treasured books in my library.

2)Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - an amazingly prophetic fiction story about the perils of socialism on a society, after reading this, you will know where the US is heading in it's current fall. It is long, but well worth the time.

3)Dame Frevisse 'Tales', by Margaret Frazer - a mystery series set around 1400's, following the adventures of a Benedictine nun who has the knack to solve almost any crime. Frazer also writes a spin-off "A Play of _____" series about the bard/player Joliffe, from the Dame Frevisse series, also very good.

4)The Scrapbook Mystery series by Laura Childs - set in post-Katrina New Orleans, a scrapbook shop owner solving crimes in the French Quarter with her sidekick and best friend Ava, the voodoo (snake oil sales, she doesn't really believe it) shop owner.

5)Resolution for Men - companion book to the Courageous movie, fantastic book for men. Very influential. Encourages men to go beyond doing just 'good enough' for their families, to trying to be their best before God, their wives, their children.

6)A Woman After God's Own Heart by Elizabeth George - I find this the ultimate how-to for being the helper God want women to be for their families and keeper of children and the household. Not so much about being a submissive wife as it is about being the most influential and trusted adviser to your husband and children, and how to place your priorities to keep a peaceful household.

7)Dragonlance series, started by Weiss & Hickman - a HUGE series, and continued by various authors, a great treat for those who like D&D type fantasy, you will LOVE the World of Krynn. I still haven't finished this series and am 10 years behind. Start at the beginning and go in order of publication so you don't get lost.

There's a start for you. I have a busy day ahead,but I'll be back with more as I recall them.

2)Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - an amazingly prophetic fiction story about the perils of socialism on a society, after reading this, you will know where the US is heading in it's current fall. It is long, but well worth the time.

I could not finish that book. I read three chapters, and determined that it was the most-overwritten book I've ever seen. XD

I could not finish that book. I read three chapters, and determined that it was the most-overwritten book I've ever seen. XD

Promptly stopped altogether after reading up on objectivism.

My son didn't even dare to start the book. The movie, part 1, was excellent, without all the fluff. I recommend it, if you can't bring yourself to finish the book.

Atlas Shrugged wasn't about objectivism , as much as it was about socialism's tendency to strangle a society into poverty. When the value of man's work is made less by the fruits of his labor being taken away and given to another without his consent, the man's desire to produce anything of value from then on, deteriorates. If a man's work is devalued by being deemed no more or less important than the lesser fruits of a lazy man, he also has no wish to continue doing his best. In both scenarios, society suffers. When capitalism is allowed to run it's course, then man produces a higher quality product and keeps his desire to compete and produce in order to go 'up'. The weak links in society are fleshed out, and the economy flourishes. Better producers, better products, better economy, more top jobs in quality companies.

Spoiler:

In the case of Atlas Shrugged, the top thinkers and do-ers of society are crippled by over-regulation. As more of the government takes over industry, and tries to 'spread the wealth', the more the 'producers' of society disappear, oft times taking their entire companies, goods, patents/inventions, etc with them. They leave the 'takers'/welfare state, to flounder on their own. The producers go and create their own society, where everything is attained by the work of your own hands, or traded value for value. Every man has a self worth and nothing is taken for free.